> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parley.so/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Update a file > Rename a file or folder, or move it to another folder in the same location. Omitted fields are left unchanged. Returns 409 NAME_TAKEN if the destination already has an item with that name. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.parley.so/openapi.json patch /files/{id} openapi: 3.1.1 info: title: Parley API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Manage Parley's projects (matters or cases), accounts (client organizations), contacts (people), tasks, custom fields, notes, files, activity, automations, and skills. Records refer to each other as { type, id, name } references; writes take IDs. Errors are { error: { code, message, details } }, where code names what went wrong and each operation lists the codes it can return. In a query string, write a timestamp's offset as Z or %2B, because a raw + arrives as a space. The MCP server at /mcp offers the same data as a smaller set of tools. servers: - url: https://api.parley.so/v1 security: - bearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Projects description: >- A project is a matter or case: it groups the files, notes, activity, and tasks for one engagement, and links to the accounts and contacts it involves. - name: Accounts description: >- An account is a client organization. Contacts belong to it, and projects link to it. - name: Contacts description: >- A contact is a person, optionally belonging to one account and linked to projects. - name: Tasks description: >- A task is a to-do with a status, assignee, and due date, optionally about one project, account, or contact. - name: Fields description: >- Custom fields defined for projects, accounts, contacts, or tasks. Records carry their values in fields, keyed by field name. - name: Notes description: >- Markdown notes on a project, account, or contact. Updates take the version you last read, so concurrent edits fail with 409 VERSION_CONFLICT instead of overwriting. - name: Files description: >- Files and folders of a project, account, contact, or intake, or the organization's Library. Add a file by creating an upload, PUTting its bytes, and adding the upload to a location. - name: Activity description: >- What happened across the organization or on one record: changes, links, notes, files, USCIS case updates, and synced emails and meetings. Each item's kind says which details it carries. - name: Sessions description: >- Conversations with Parley's assistant, from the web app, Word, Outlook, automation runs, and the API. Start one with a message, follow up or steer it while it works, and read its replies. - name: Automations description: >- Instructions Parley's assistant carries out on a schedule, as the person who created them, with nobody present. - name: Skills description: >- Reusable playbooks for Parley's assistant: a SKILL.md plus optional bundled documents, addressed by slug. - name: Users description: The people in your organization, and the caller. paths: /files/{id}: patch: tags: - Files summary: Update a file description: >- Rename a file or folder, or move it to another folder in the same location. Omitted fields are left unchanged. Returns 409 NAME_TAKEN if the destination already has an item with that name. operationId: updateFile parameters: - name: id in: path required: true schema: type: string minLength: 1 description: The file or folder ID. requestBody: required: false content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 255 description: A new name. folderId: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' description: >- Move it into this folder in the same location, or null to move it to the top level. additionalProperties: false responses: '200': description: OK content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/File' '400': description: >- The request was invalid. VALIDATION_FAILED, INVALID_REFERENCE, INVALID_MOVE. content: application/json: schema: oneOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationFailedError' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidReferenceError' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidMoveError' '401': description: Missing or invalid credentials. UNAUTHORIZED. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedError' '403': description: You don't have permission. FORBIDDEN. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ForbiddenError' '404': description: Not found. NOT_FOUND. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundError' '409': description: The request conflicts with the current state. NAME_TAKEN. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NameTakenError' '429': description: Too many requests, or a usage limit was reached. TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TooManyRequestsError' components: schemas: File: description: A file or a folder, told apart by type. examples: - type: file id: cmf2y1a2b0003abcd name: engagement-letter.pdf location: type: project id: cmf2x8k0q0001abcd name: Acme Corp H-1B petition folder: type: folder id: cmf2y0z9x0004abcd name: Evidence mediaType: application/pdf status: ready createdAt: '2026-10-03T12:00:00.000Z' updatedAt: '2026-10-03T12:01:30.000Z' oneOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FileItem' - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FolderItem' discriminator: propertyName: type mapping: file: '#/components/schemas/FileItem' folder: '#/components/schemas/FolderItem' ValidationFailedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: VALIDATION_FAILED message: type: string examples: - The request is invalid. details: type: object properties: issues: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string description: >- Where the problem is, as a dotted path into the input such as accountIds.add.0 or reminder.remindAt. Empty for the input as a whole. message: type: string description: What is wrong with the value. required: - path - message description: Each problem with the input. required: - issues required: - code - message - details required: - error InvalidReferenceError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: INVALID_REFERENCE message: type: string examples: - >- The request refers to a record or user that doesn't exist or that you can't use. details: type: object properties: field: type: string description: The input that holds the reference, such as accountIds. ids: type: array items: type: string description: The IDs that could not be used. required: - field - ids required: - code - message - details required: - error InvalidMoveError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: INVALID_MOVE message: type: string examples: - A folder can't be moved into itself or one of its subfolders. required: - code - message required: - error UnauthorizedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: UNAUTHORIZED message: type: string examples: - Missing or invalid credentials. required: - code - message required: - error ForbiddenError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: FORBIDDEN message: type: string examples: - You don't have permission to do this. required: - code - message required: - error NotFoundError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: NOT_FOUND message: type: string examples: - Not found. required: - code - message required: - error NameTakenError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: NAME_TAKEN message: type: string examples: - The name is already taken. required: - code - message required: - error TooManyRequestsError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS message: type: string examples: - Too many requests. required: - code - message required: - error FileItem: type: object properties: type: const: file id: type: string minLength: 1 description: The file or folder ID. name: type: string description: The name, including any file extension. location: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordRef' - type: object properties: type: const: intake id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: The intake title. required: - type - id - name description: The intake's type, ID, and name. - type: object properties: type: const: library required: - type description: The organization's shared Library. description: >- Whose files these are: a project's, an account's, a contact's, or an intake's, or the organization's Library. folder: anyOf: - type: object properties: type: const: folder id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: The folder name. required: - type - id - name description: The folder's type, ID, and name. - type: 'null' description: The folder it is in, or null at the top level. createdAt: type: string format: date-time description: When it was added. updatedAt: type: string format: date-time description: When it was last updated, including processing, renames, and moves. mediaType: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: >- The file's media type, such as application/pdf, from its extension, or null when the extension isn't recognized. status: enum: - pending - processing - ready - failed type: string description: >- Whether Parley has extracted the file's text: pending (queued), processing, ready (its text can be read), or failed (download it instead). required: - type - id - name - location - folder - createdAt - updatedAt - mediaType - status FolderItem: type: object properties: type: const: folder id: type: string minLength: 1 description: The file or folder ID. name: type: string description: The name, including any file extension. location: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordRef' - type: object properties: type: const: intake id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: The intake title. required: - type - id - name description: The intake's type, ID, and name. - type: object properties: type: const: library required: - type description: The organization's shared Library. description: >- Whose files these are: a project's, an account's, a contact's, or an intake's, or the organization's Library. folder: anyOf: - type: object properties: type: const: folder id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: The folder name. required: - type - id - name description: The folder's type, ID, and name. - type: 'null' description: The folder it is in, or null at the top level. createdAt: type: string format: date-time description: When it was added. updatedAt: type: string format: date-time description: When it was last updated, including processing, renames, and moves. required: - type - id - name - location - folder - createdAt - updatedAt RecordRef: type: object properties: type: enum: - project - account - contact type: string description: 'The kind of record: project, account, or contact.' id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: >- The record's name. A contact's is its first and last name, or an email address when it has no name. required: - type - id - name description: A reference to a project, account, or contact. securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: A Parley API key. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.